Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said to us, "Everything is copy."

I think if you're lucky enough to find a voice in whatever you do, that voice will come sneaking out no matter what.

I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies.

New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)

I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.